the only things that would survive is the roaches and cockroaches!!
2007-12-22 04:40:43 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
You won't get anything for Christmas...
2007-12-22 05:20:26 · answer #1 · answered by Vinegar Taster 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It has happened many times in our past, and yet there are still other beings than roaches on Earth.
It depends on the size of the asteroid.
An extremely long time ago, a very big one (almost planet-sized) hit and the ejected material created the Moon.
65 million years ago, a big one hit and killed off over 90% of species. Small burrowing mammals survived and we eventually resulted (no asteroid 65 million years ago = no humans today?).
There are scars of very "recent" ones: Barringer crater in Arizona (only 50,000 years ago).
Check out the second source for a map of North American examples.
The "Tunguska event" used to be blamed on a comet that would have exploded just above the ground (before hitting). However, it is now thought that it was a small asteroid that hit in 1908, in Siberia. If that is true, then -- maybe, perhaps -- the crater would be what we now call Lake Cheko. However, other experts claim that the lake, although very likely a crater, could be from a much earlier impact (5000 years).
Still, the roaches did not feel the need to take over. (Maybe it is because they already have...)
2007-12-22 04:49:13 · answer #2 · answered by Raymond 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it depends on how big, lets say the asteroid was the size of a walmart super center and the asteroid landed in new Mexico, new Mexico and the entire southwest would be made into a bunch of islands
2007-12-22 08:15:01 · answer #3 · answered by Valentine Smith 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to Google Earth and find the Manicouagan Reservoir in Northeastern Canada and see for your self.
51-22N, 68-42W, at 75 miles altitude.
2007-12-22 04:57:28 · answer #4 · answered by autoglide 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling.
Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes...
The dead rising from the grave.
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria.
2007-12-22 05:01:19 · answer #5 · answered by Faesson 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They always try to crash as meteor and some also crashes like meteorite which is a big meteor and even it can destroy the whole life on earth if it is very very big but still some species can survive.
2007-12-22 04:45:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
A crater will form. If it hits really hard parts of Earth will go into space and form a new moon!?!?!!!!!
2007-12-22 06:17:49 · answer #7 · answered by Angelx 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋